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Originally Posted by Lazortag
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I'm not sure what was so unreasonable about what I said.
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I just don't think you're giving very serious thought to what you're saying:
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Originally Posted by Lazortag
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P99 is really the only server of remotely acceptable quality for anyone who's ever actually played the real game. The other servers are clunky and poorly coded with tons of obvious bugs. Basically giving out the source rewards people who don't work hard and makes their servers more popular than they should be, in relation to the amount of effort they put in.
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Your whole preconception of how popular a server "should be" aside, I fail to see how running a P99 clone could be construed as any kind of reward. Do you really think a significant chunk of Project 1999 players would jump ship to a server that's always going to be at least a day behind? And even then, what does the person running the clone server have to gain from that? More whining petitions? Woo.
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As for the second point -- have you ever heard of patent laws? The whole point of measures like those is to increase competition and encourage innovation. In the case of P99, not giving out the source is a good policy because it means devs of other servers are forced to come up with fixes of their own rather than waiting on nilbog to do it for them eventually.
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You're right that patents were created to increase competition and innovation, but what you're missing is that they do that by
forcing people to publicly document and disclose the invention being patented. We have patents because innovation and competition are severely stifled when inventions and solutions to problems are kept strictly secret.
Take, for example "devs of other servers are forced to come up with fixes of their own rather than waiting on nilbog to do it for them eventually," and your anecdote about instruments not working. P99 has figured out how to fix that. Other servers haven't. What is gained by forcing the other servers' devs to figure out their own fix?
Or, more simply, what part of the invention of the wheel is so important that you think it's good to make everyone do it for themselves?
tl;dr I think P99 would do well to go (partially?) open-source